San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-19
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs.

survey are not we'll taken. The state
should know OF what property she Is
possessed. As an Investment the state
will md that survey good one to make.
The Fiore vile Chronicle Is weary Of
/ those letters from Austin to the Ex-
! press, and prsys that the fountain from
/ whence they Issue may be dried up.
| The Chronicle Is injudicious. Ii does
/ not stop to consider the sequences Of
suddenly arresting such flow OF gas.
MORMON elders are proselyting In Mis-
| sissippi. and are being DISTINGUISHED In
| Nevada. Nevada knows the character
Of the varments, Mississippi does not.
THIS state needs lease law, or q
homestead law, or land law. or all OF
| these. 80 wOrded rs TO allow of the dis
posal of the state lands in such manner
as will best encourage actual settle
ments.
THERE is ut least a decent probability
that the senate by vote Of its republic
| can members will refuse to confirm as
public printer, Benedict, the rat printer
Of Buffalo. The action has been delayed,
pending the completion Of some large
contracts by Benedict, but will be soon
had.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER OBERLY
speaks In the labor federation on the
discomfort of the laboring classes, which
he attributes TO increased labor saving
machinery. He utters several well worn
| platitudes. but offers no practical sug-
| gestions for improving the labor situa-
| tiOn.
ANOTHER noted New England lady has
finished her four score years and her life
together. Mary, widow Of Horace
Mann, and sister Of Nathaniel Haw-
thOrne's wife, is the lady. She has gone,
not to the house of the seven Gables"
many mansions be.
MANNING and Grover whine over their
official separation like two gushing
boarding school girls after commence
ment, swearing that they will never,
| never, never, never, have such friends
again and will write every week until
death OIL .matrimOny comes to the rescue.
Poor Grover! Poor Daniel!
CAPABLE men are kept out of office be-
cause the incapsbles are less scrupulous
| about catching the ear of the vulgar
and pandering to the prejudices and
narrow mindedness and vanity OF the
crowd 1t is a compliment to public
uihh w oC unpopular HOW-d-
days. A genuine testimony to his in
compatibility Of character.
The Philadelphia clergy have sat in
| solemn conclave in the bald-headed row
and after due lucubrstions decide that
| the ballet is highly immoral and dis
| graceful and an outrage on christian
sentiment. That settles It, After this
advertisement the ballet will have such
a run in Philadelphia as has not been
seen 10 years. To make any amusement
| popular with sinners get the clergy to
damn 1t rOundly.
LITTLE Belgium Is making prepara-
tions for the worst, in case rupture of
the peace should occur along her Dor
| ders, and is conducting her military ex-
| periments with explosives and inoreas-
| ing her ornaments as though she act
| ually anticipated becoming a principal
in the expected clash Of arms.
The state of Nevada has disfranchised
all mormons within her borders and the
supreme court Of the United States will
probably be called upon to decide
whether such an act is within the pow
ers of the legislature to perform. If the
disfranohising act Is susta ned, 1t will be
| a wholesale, speedy, and efiectusl RENE
dy for mormon lille In that state. They
will leave such country las rats, a sink
ing ship.
DALLAS has no longer any claim to be
| called the "TwO Fair City," The two
fairs have consolidated and will here.
| after be found doing business at the old
| stand as one, forever indivisible.
The last straw breaks the camels back.
| Carl SchurZ joins the innumerable cara
van that moves from the mysterious
realms OF mugwumpery,t to take its silent
place in the ranks Of the would-be inter
state commerce commissioners.
A BOYCOTT that all may wish success
| to, is boycott upon the cargo of Aus
tralian rabbits that Is approaching these
shores. lfreport speaks truly they jump
worse than candidates at an inter state
commerce commissionership, and are
more devouring In their nature than the
original locusts Of Europe.
The oleomargarine foolishness is the
| laughingstock Of civilization. The arti-
Gle is manufactured so as to defy detec-
ton, and in many instances where
| packages have been seized as spurious
butter, under close chemical analysis,
they have turned out genuine extract OF
COW. Pure oleO is infinitely better than
rancid butter and the only real objection
comes from the butter makers who must
make better article than most that Is
sold or be driven from the market.
The use to be made OF the university
lands should be determined by the
board ofregents. They are responsible
| to q greater extent than any one else
for the university; they are more direct
| ly interested in increasing its revenues;
they are more intimately acquainted
With Its necessities and would make
better provision for Its income from the
disposition made OF the university lands
than any land board would be likely to,
III the university regents are not CON-
petent to DO this they are not competent
Tor the Office they hold.
| AN exchange remarks that all success
full newspaper men have enemies.
| Newspaper men are no exception to the
rest Of the world In this respect. Envy,
that coal which comes kissing hot from
sheol, is the common feeling of common
minds towards those who In any mar ked
degree rank above the common crowd.
Such men must expect envy and enmity
as their natural Inheritance.
If YOU want a divorce do not 60 to
South Carolina. There is no divorce
law upon her statute books. South Car
olina knows when she has had enough.
She has had such a dose of secession
that she cannot even tolerate the idea
OF man or woman seeding from the
matrimonial relation. The law there Is,
as concerns divorce, like that of the
Modes and Persians, 1t changeth not.
TIE Houston Herald remarks truly